Abstract
Cooperation in justice and home affairs (JHA) is of mutual interest to the EU and Turkey. For the EU, cooperation is important because Turkey has become one of the main transit routes for irregular migration to the EU. This chapter looks at three venues for EU-Turkey cooperation: the accession process; the initiated visa liberalization process in December 2013; and the March 2016 EU–Turkey refugee statement. It summarizes developments and main scholarly debates for each venue. The chapter deals with issues such as border control, illegal migration, drug smuggling and money laundering, organized crime, and police and judicial cooperation. Despite the stalemate in the accession process, the European Commission acknowledges Turkey’s partial convergence with EU policy priorities in the field of justice and home affairs. With the Amsterdam Treaty, the European Commission received the competence to conclude readmission agreements on behalf of all Schengen EU member states.
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